An interesting article on diet and lifestyle in the late 1800's back when bread was expensive and fresh food cheap 
Forget paleo, go mid-Victorian: it’s the healthiest diet you’ve never heard of - Spectator Health

If you were to ask a member of the public to name a particularly healthy cuisine they might say the Mediterranean diet. If they really knew their stuff they might even suggest the Inuit diet. What they are unlikely to mention is the British diet of the mid-Victorian era.
Yet between the years of 1850 and 1872 was a mini golden age of nutrition which, if more restricted in choice, had much in common with today’s best dietary models. Their diet may have been dull, but the mid-Victorian urban working classes ate healthily.
Forget paleo, go mid-Victorian: it’s the healthiest diet you’ve never heard of - Spectator Health
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